Integrated Party on 'Lee Hae-chan Apology': "Unable to Call Victims Victims"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] The Future United Party criticized Lee Hae-chan, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who apologized while referring to the woman who accused the late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon of sexual harassment as a 'victim complainant,' saying, "They cannot even call the victim a victim."

Kim Eun-hye, spokesperson for the United Party, stated in a commentary on the 15th, "The Democratic Party started collective fabrication because they do not want to call the victim a victim," and pointed out, "Leader Lee calls her a 'complainant,' Lee Nak-yeon, a candidate for party leadership, calls her a 'plaintiff,' and even the Seoul City government, forced to conduct a fact-finding investigation, has created the strange term 'victim complainant employee,' singing a refrain of perpetration."

Spokesperson Kim added, "During the cases of former Mayor Oh Geo-don and former Governor Ahn Hee-jung's sexual harassment incidents, the Democratic Party referred to the victims as 'victims' and apologized to the women affected," calling it "the Democratic Party's 'elegant secondary victimization' that refuses to acknowledge the allegations."

He continued, "There are even moves within the Democratic Party to amend party rules to state that 'sexual harassment is not corruption,'" criticizing, "The truth does not disappear just because there is no prosecution right."

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